Is it possible to backend vykar-server with S3?

[hadleyrich]

I didn't see it in the documentation but please point me in the right direction if I've missed it.

I'm wondering if it would be possible to run vykar-server for clients to use as the backend and then have vykar-server store the actual blobs on an S3 compatible store?

If there isn't built in support I could fuse mount the data-dir but wanted to check if there are ways that vykar-server uses the filesystem that would be incompatible or inefficient over fuse mounted S3.

[m3nu]

You can already use S3 directly?

[hadleyrich]

Apologies if I was unclear;

Do you mean directly from the client? If so I was reading here (https://vykar.borgbase.com/server-setup) about the benefits on using vykar-server (server-side compaction etc.) over S3 directly from the client. But also wanted the unlimited storage of S3 vs a local disk on a server.

If you mean directly from the server, I couldn't see that in the docs - other than passing a fuse mounted --data-dir which is what I was trying to ask about - whether that would cause issues with the server process.

[m3nu]

vykar-server only supports local files as backend. Using a remote file system would change many current reliability and performance assumptions. So it's a bigger change.

[hadleyrich]

Thanks for the clarification